Keeping with tradition, BTM will be bringing you the very best of new
releases from around the world. Featuring cinema from over twenty countries,
BTM offers you a juicy programme with award-winning feature films and
ground-breaking documentaries.
BTM will be focusing on China this year by showing four films that give the best representation of the Chinese film industry. With a mix of classic and contemporary films, BTM offers you an introduction to the history of the film industry whose first motion picture was introduced in 1896.
The deadly art form of Samurai is one of the highlights including Paul Schrader's riveting study of the final day in the life of right-wing militarist warrior-poet Yukio Mishima and a premiere screening of Kim Eui-seok’s South Korean fast paced thriller Sword in the Moon.
BTM is proud to welcome Indian cinema legend Dilip Kumar to Bradford for this rare retrospective. Featuring classic films such as Jugnu (1947), Devdas (1955) and Shakti (1982), Dilip Kumar will conclude the festival with an on stage interview about his life working in film.
At a time when religion is a focal point in the world we live in, BTM will explore the history of how religion has been depicted through the medium of film, including documentaries from a new generation of filmmakers as well as classics such as Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha on 70mm and Ján Kadár’s relatively unknown The Angel Levine.
Slices of Mango returns bigger and better presenting the best of world
short films with three juicy packages from countries as far a field as
Australia, India and Sri Lanka.
In conjunction with Hong Kong Legends, Bite the Mango presents an action-packed day of screenings and demonstrations showcasing the very best of Hong Kong cinema. Screenings include Jet Li's Hero, Wing Chun with Michelle Yeoh and the much-anticipated UK premiere of Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer.
Film historian and critic Lalit Mohan Joshi will give
an illustrated presentation on the films made showing the India-Pakistan
partition. The talk will be followed by a screening of Chandraparkash
Dwivedi’s political Indian drama Pinjar.
BTM is proud to welcome back 1998 guests Mahesh Bhatt and Samina Peerzada. Since their first meeting at the festival in 1998, Bhatt and Peerzada are currently working on a joint project. This is a rare opportunity to hear them talk about the project and to learn about writing scripts.
Back for its second year, the symposium will present five speakers talking
about different aspects of world cinema.
Mysteries of Egypt gets its first bite at the mango
this year with screenings throughout the festival. An all time favourite
of Imax lovers, this is your chance to be mesmerised by the beauty of
Egypt narrated by Hollywood actor Omar Sharif.
Bite the Mango takes a look at how multiculturalism is represented on British television by showing four programmes including I Love Jamaica - an hour long BBC documentary which celebrates the cultural aspects of the island from cricket to reggae, and the Iranian documentary Kandahar that looks at the lives of women under Taliban rule.
From 24 September to 31 October 2004 Pictureville Bar will be hosting an exhibition of film poster designs to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Bite The Mango Film Festival. The material is taken from the Museum’s own Collection and includes such classics as Sholay, Bairaag, and Deewar, some designs dating back to 1948.
Please note: The posters are not original artefacts.
Following recent revisions, the display will include posters, lobby cards
and leaflet artwork. All copied from original promotional material from
the NMPFT Collection.
